Posted on 07/24/2010 3:32:20 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, awards the Distinguished Service Medal to U.S. Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as he stands with is wife, Annie, during a retirement ceremony on Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C., July 23, 2010. DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry D. Morrison
Looks like Gen. McChrystal and his wife are really trying hard to hold the emotions inside. Awkward moment. Defense Secretary Robert Gates summed it up:
We bid farewell to Stan McChrystal today with pride and sadness. Pride for his unique record as a man and soldier; sadness that our comrade and his prestigious talents are leaving us.Let's hope the new media engagement rules will prevent Rolling Stone from defeating our top command in the future.
I wonder what will come up when McChystal and his wife open their mouth and are free to talk.
Watch the whole photo-essay here
the malignant little crap weasel that wrote that hit piece should be fragged. but mchrystal defeated himself.
I would have left without the party.
McChrystal supposedly voted for the muslim saudi agent.
True - nobody can do to us as much harm as we can do to ourselves.
Response: If he or his wife talks his pension will be reduced to that level payable to his former permanent rank. Further, not being familiar with the arcana of military law there may be some sort of legal penalty that would attach.
Who lives by the liberal - gets fired by the liberal... or something like that?
Bummer! So they will stay quiet?
A co-worker of mine who served in the military says there is actually a rule forbidding the military from publically speaking out against the CIC. Whether this applies to retired military, I don’t know.
In any case, keep in mind who will be paying his pension and controlling his benefits.
If nothing else, hopefully they will know better than to talk to "Rolling Stone" to begin with.
I just want to vomit when I see that term...especially applied to the military. Does anyone doubt that this is fascism laying in wait???
Yes, that came from that creep at Politico, Michael Calderone
So why do you repeat it here?
Rumors become facts now.
May be book in the future? Running for office?
Gates has a degree in Soviet history. ‘Comrade’ was a bit awkward.
President of The United States of America, I hope.
I thought this photo sums the moment perfectly - picture worth many words.
Yes ...
Where is he going to work now? Did he say yet?
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